Kim Dong-choon

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김동춘
Revised Romanization	Gim Dong-chun
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Tongch'un
See also : Korean name

Kim Dong-choon (* 1959 in Yeongju , South Korea ) is Professor of Sociology at the Sung Kong Hoe University in Seoul .

Life

In addition to his work as a professor, in which he focuses on the sociology of history, Kim Dong-choon is a member of the standing committee of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation ( Kor. 진실 화해 를 위한 과거사 정리 위원회 ). For his book The Korean War and Society , he conducted numerous interviews with contemporary witnesses. This gave him a perspective on the Korean War , which, in contrast to the previous representation in South Korea , ascribes responsibility for the outbreak of war and for war crimes not only to North Korea but to both Korean states.

Fonts (selection)

• The Korean War and Society , 2007 ( ISBN 978-3-89691-658-7 ; original edition: 전쟁 과 사회 , 1st edition 2000, ISBN 8971991216 , 2nd edition 2007)

• with Maria Palme and Phillip Tolliday (eds.) Asia-Pacific between Conflict and Reconciliation , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-525-56025-9 ).

Other books published in Korean only include:

• 한국 사회 노동자 연구 ( A Study of the Korean Working Class ), 1995 ( ISBN 8976961072 ; also diss.)
• 근대 의 그늘: 한국 의 근대성 과 민족주의 ( The Shadow of Modernity. Korea's Modernity and Nationalism ), 2000 ( ISBN 8981630003 )
• Are there independent intellectuals? , 2001
• War and Market - America's Driving Force , 2007

Essays

• Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Problems in Historical Clarification of the Korean War , in: Korea Journal , 42: 3 (Autumn 2002), pp. 60-86
• Growth and crisis of the Korean citizen's movement , in: Korea Journal , 46: 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 99–128 (also online ; PDF; 62 kB)

Web links

• Literature by and about Kim Dong-choon in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV with picture (German) (PDF file; 33 kB)
• Homepage of Kim Dong-choon (Korean)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Dong-choon is the first name.